Creative X-fi Titanium --> little dot1+ --> Grado 325is

How do you think would be the best way to go from the sound card to the little dot? Right now I have the grado's direct into the headphone out on the back of the card, and the little dot in incoming. The lack of a line-out kinda sucks. So what would the best bet be? Keep the volume low as hell or half way? I would eventually like to get an external DAC and just run optical out, but that is going to be a way away after dropping ~700 on headphone crap this month alone.

The X-fi xtreme gamer I used to have had an HP-out that connected internally to the front of my computer. Circuit-wise, it was almost the same as the "line-out", but had much lower noise floor. Much, much lower.

the green jack is line-out and headphone out because it has a high current operational amplifier on it, but the rest of the output jacks are only line-out. if you want to listen in stereo mode and want to be able to plug in several equipments like a headphone, an amp, another amp, simultaneously in the audio card, check my thread about how to copy stereo to all jacks.

the green jack is line-out and headphone out because it has a high current operational amplifier on it, but the rest of the output jacks are only line-out. if you want to listen in stereo mode and want to be able to plug in several equipments like a headphone, an amp, another amp, simultaneously in the audio card, check my thread about how to copy stereo to all jacks.